Wednesday 28 May 2014

Face Body Scanner ready for a take off

The report titled “Global 3D Scanning Market (Types, Range, Services, Application and Geography) - Size, Share, Global Trends, Company Profiles, Demand, Insights, Analysis, Research, Report, Opportunities, Segmentation and Forecast, 2013 – 2020,” offers deep-dive information on the market revenue trends. The report classifies numerous factors responsible for the growth of the market and factors that pose challenges. It is a resourceful guide for the industry participants.



The report clearly states that face body scanning segment within the market is beefed up to gather accolades and grow exponentially. Major reasons credited for such an impressive growth are growing concerns regarding security. Further, utilization of MRI as a medical application is boosting the market growth for face body segment.

Looking at the market trends in the future, many companiesare planning to launch scanners in the market. Different kinds of scanners are available in the market depending upon the nature of use. Recently, GFM 3D introduced 3D scanners named BodySCAN and FaceSCAN in the market. Similarly, STT systems launched its face, foot and body scanners in the market.

“The market is driven due to 3D scanners’ ability to capture minute and hidden details.  In recent years, security concerns are rising due to growing terrorism activities and theft activities. To record the details of various human activities at public places and private offices, CCTV surveillance is used. In addition to this, full body scan systems are installed at airports, railway stations, offices, etc,” states AMR analyst.

Analyst further stated: “These applications are driving the adoption of the scanners in the market. Medical applications, which include different types of interior body scans, are also creating demand for the technology. The medical scanning applications would create additional opportunities for this market segment.”


The report credits North America as the highest revenue generating region due to the growth of healthcare industry. Europe is expected to grow during the forecast period.

Thursday 22 May 2014

Security Technology producers all set to speed up the process

As interest for security innovation — from metal indicators to imaging scanners — has developed, the organizations that process and works it have seen an upsurge in the market.
Rapiscan Systems, based in Torrance, Calif provides wide range of security technology like baggage scanner has opened its office in the Crystal city. The company provided security at recent Olympics game such as Beijing and Salt Lake City, said Peter Kant, the company’s executive vice president.

“The technology is currently in a mature cycle,” he said. “The move now is how to keep or increase security operations” while trimming costs.

As per Kant, there are not many opportunities for the business in U.S.A. He said that business went up by $400 million in 2012.

“These aren’t products that people are going to necessarily stop buying,”Lance Roncalli, managing director and vice president of sales for the Americas at Smiths Detection.

“When we have an event like the Boston Marathon, there’s always a big focus on, of course, not allowing that to happen,” Roncalli said.

“I wouldn’t say [security technology is] a fast-growth market, but it’s a growing market,” said Timothy Quillin of the financial services firm Stephens. “I would’ve thought that there would be some kind of a lull or decline off of those relatively high levels of spending post-9/11, but I think security spending just continues to go up.”

Roncalli is of the view that his company must constantly improve the technology to enhance the security services. “If you deliver it today and you can’t add to the library of substances it can detect, it becomes obsolete very quickly,” he said.

However, privacy is still a concern for such security technology. The balance “between security and liberty [is] an ongoing discussion, but I don’t think the discussions that we’ve had about privacy and liberty have changed in aggregate spending on security,” Quillin said. “I don’t think that we as a society. have decided that we want to reverse course.”


Hence, the Global Transportation Security Technology Market seems to be growing immensely. With security being a major concern globally, this market has much to offer. To understand the Transportation Security Technology Market’s scope and opportunities, Allied Market Research articulated an extensive research report. One could understand the potential of the market drivers and restraints from this elaborate report.

Food and beverages industry to benefit from laser-displacement sensor

Cognex, on March 2013, released its DS1100 laser-displacement sensor that would define object’s proper shape. Since it is effective in providing accurate height, length and width of a particular object, laser-displacement sensor becomes perfect to be used in food and beverage industries.

“For example, it can provide the volumes of products such as cookies and donuts on the line,” says Bob Tremblay, former applications engineer and current manager of product marketing for Cognex.

“Since the sensor also can describe object shape, it’s used on bottling lines to check the seating of the caps.” “Present/absence of height change makes it much simpler to determine that,” Tremblay says.

“In the past, with optical-character recognition, [this application] was a lighting nightmare,” Tremblay says.

Keyence would use this IL Series laser displacement sensors for palletizer, packaging and stacker machinery.  “The IL Series can provide stacking device counts and identify stacking disturbances through the non-contact detection, providing reliable detection regardless of color changes in the targets,” according to a spokesman.


Hence, to conclude, displacement sensor technology is garnering significance in various industry verticals. This emerging technology would prove to be immensely beneficial in certain sectors such as food & beverages. Also, a latest report by AMR provides a detailed information Global Proximity and Displacement SensorsMarket and helps to understand its scope and growth trends. 

Computer numerical control systems would enhance Job Shops

"What we're seeing is that customers are looking for that bipolarization, a combination of the high end and the low-cost job shop controls," said Scott Strache, senior product marketing engineer at Mitsubishi Electric Automation, Inc. "There's a lot of demand right now for the lower-cost machine, especially in the China market where that trend is really strong. With the low end, it all depends on not only the control platform, but also the drive series that they're using, the size of the servo motors and the spindle motors."

Job shops is continually driven by innovations and technological advancements. This opens up new avenues for it. For example, Computer numerical control systems are instrumental in revolutionizing the manufacturing sector.

"There are faster controls and great part finish that let you make parts faster, and make it better," said Chris Weber, national sales manager at Heidenhain Corp. "What Trochoidal milling lets you do is do a circular move, milling a slot which is greater than the tool diameter in one pass, and it gives you more even wear on the tool, while speeding it up as much as 40%. It's even better when you combine that with adaptive feed control."

Further, Computer numerical control systems are also apt at increasing  the employment rate. Hence, to bank on this, Baker College and Charlevoix High School, together are developing a course material that provides specialization in CNC.

"There is a huge skilled labor gap that we are trying to address to help boost local manufacturing jobs growth," said David Dewey, advanced manufacturing and CNC program coordinator at the high school.

There's a stigma with manufacturing jobs," Dewey told the source "There's such a tremendous need. Information needs to start at the high school level. Counselors need to let students know what's out there."

"When you buy a machine tool, you need to understand what you bought and be able to put that into operation," said Karl Kleppek, director of sales and marketing of CNCs at the Hoffman Estates, in the Manufacturing Engineering article.

Well, computer numericalcontrol systems would definitely have a positive impact on manufacturing sector. Many researchers are identifying its potential for future and hence, numerous research reports are trying to unravel its strength. A latest report by Allied Market Research provides a detailed information of global computer numerical control Size, Share, Global Trends, Company Profiles, Demand, Insights, Analysis, Research, Report, Opportunities, Segmentation and Forecast from 2013 to 2020. The report provides a clear understanding of market drivers and restraints.


Wednesday 21 May 2014

Microsoft releases series of Cloud products

Microsoft’s CEO, Satya Nadella’s “Cloud first, mobile first” strategy was supported last week when Microsoft released a series of cloud based products. 

"How can there be two firsts?" said Microsoft Corporate VP Brad Anderson, who presided over the keynote. "They're one and the same. You can't have a cloud without connected devices and vice versa. [Otherwise,] all you have is potential that goes untapped."

However, tapping the data is not simple due to high security and management concerns involved. Apart from these core issues, the device must also be connected to the cloud. Hence, to address such issues, Microsoft has launched a series of products last week and more would be launched later this year.

Microsoft, with the help of Azure Express Route, would enable firms to connect their private asset to Azure. Microsoft Azure Files that was announced as preview is designed to help users share data and files securely with devices and clouds. Further, company’s zure API Management would enable users to share APIs on cloud.

Microsoft Antimalware for Azure would enable users to install anti-malware for virtual machines and cloud services efficiently.

One very important segment is of personal cloud computing. As the name suggest, personal cloud refers to cloud network used for your personal files or your small business. Since this network is small as compared to big cloud network of Google or Yahoo, it is more secure. Personal cloud computing is becoming significant. A latestresearch by Allied Market Research on global personal cloud computing market forecasts it to growth rapidly in future. The report provides in-depth analysis of personal cloud computing market trend, growth rate, revenue and share. 

Microsoft working on Smart Elevators

What if you enter an elevator and you need not even press the button? What if the elevator knows which floor you want go? This is possible with the new smart elevator technology that uses Artificial intelligence. Hence, elevator would know exactly where you want to land.

Microsoft is presently working on smart elevator technology, said Peter Lee, the head of Microsoft Research showcased “smart elevator” while appearing on Bloomberg TV’s “Bloomberg West.”

Artificial intelligence is “our largest investment area in the labs right now,” Lee told Bloomberg. We’ve really been very focused on it.” He said that this idea is derived from sitting with a computer and operating it.  “We think in the future, you won’t be operating computers, but computers will be working on your behalf,” he said.

“In the future, sensors that you wear can understand your physicality, routines, even what your plans are,” Lee said.

“That kind of ability to predict people’s intentions and what might happen next, in the same way that people do, those are things that we think will get built in, really deeply embedded in the environment all-around us.”

For artificial intelligence and its application in elevators, lee said “if your environment knows that it’s your lunch time and that you had spoken yesterday of having lunch with a colleague on the second floor,” and that you’re now leaving your office to go to the elevator, the elevator can be “smart enough to take you, without your need to operate anything, to your colleague.”


Hence, smart elevator market is a thriving industry and it might grow exponentially in future. This topic is been studied by various researchers to know its future trend. One such report that provides the market trend, share, revenue and opportunities of global smart elevator market is articulated by Allied Market Research. One may get a fair idea about the market and its growth opportunities.

Hewlett-Packard would invest a billion in cloud computing

Hewlett-Packard Co plans to contribute more than $1 billion through the following two years to create and offer cloud-computing items and software.

The organization said that it would make its Openstack-based open cloud administrations accessible in 20 server farms throughout the following year and a half.

Openstack, a distributed computing suggested that HP gives a free and open-source distributed computing stage for open and private cloud administrations.

"Customer challenges today extend beyond cloud. They include how to manage, control and scale applications in a hybrid environment that spans multiple technology approaches," Martin Fink, executive vice president and chief technology officer, HP, said in a statement.

Foxconn Technology Group and HP signed a contract to manufacture servers that would provide cloud computing services.

To counter the rising competition, Google and Amazon have reduced the prices of their cloud computing services.


Cloud Computing is emerging to be an important sector under Information Technology. Many companies are planning forays into this market. Also, recently Allied Market Researchpublished a report on global cloud computing market that provides a holistic view about the technology and helps to locate various opportunities. 

Gamification in ERP systems

Canadian airline WestJet firmly believes that applying gamification i.e. game designs notion at workplace would help its employees to efficiently utilize Oracle ERP (enterprise resource planning) system.

Until now, ga,ification was extensively used for sales, employee performance management software and support and not for core ERP systems. WestJet, in co-ordination with Badgeville- enterprise, gamification vendor and Oracle, initiated the pilot project that would focus on expense reporting.

Since expense reporting provides large amount of users to test gamification, it is an ideal method, said Mike Mihaichuk, manager of ERP and finance applications.

Gamification is “a look at human behavior and what motivates people,” he said. “Different people are motivated by different things in different situations.”

Gamification “has been around for a long time,” Mihaichuk said. Working with Badgeville, WestJet created “a lot of badges that were just for fun,” as it is important for badges to be easily attainable, he said.

“People were interested to see this use of technology because it’s something they use today all the time” on sites such as FourSquare, he said. “People are so used to this these days.”

“This is a methodology to improve influence and influence outcomes,” said analyst Ray Wang, founder and chairman of Constellation Research. “In ERP, what do you want to influence? For a manufacturing line, it may be the defect and quality process. You would apply an incentive to identify defects and also one to internally crowdsource solutions with rewards. You can apply gamification to everything.”

Gamification is fairly a new concept; however, it is garnering importance in different technological verticals. A new research suggests that key factors that are driving growth of global gamification market are customer& employee engagement, user experience enrichment, etc.

Beefed up authentication for Online Banking

Due to rising online fraudulent activities, RBI has instructed banks to adopt a two stage verification process to ensure secure transaction.

RBI’s report 'Enabling Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) in Payment System Applications' suggested banks to inform their respective customers about the risks involved in online banking.

"Internet banking applications of all banks should mandatorily create authentication environment for password- based two-factor authentication as well as PKI-based system for authentication and transaction verification in online banking transaction," the report said.

Further, the report states that bank must allow their customers to choose from numerous authentication option to ensure security for their online transactions. Hence, RBI introduced different types of online payment systems such as RTGS, CBLO, NEFT, Government Securities Clearing, Cheque Truncation System (CTS) and Forex Clearing.

In terms of value, such systems contribute 93.7% to the total share of payment transaction. However, in terms of volume, their share is limited to 25.1%.

"The objective of an effective payment system is to ensure a safe, secure, efficient, robust and sound payment system in the country. In order to secure electronic documents and transactions and to ensure legal compliance, digital technology is used," report stated.

"The banks have been mandated to issue EMV (card with chip and pin) to certain category of customers and for the other customers, banks have been given option to either issue EMV cards or adopt Aadhaar biometric authentication as additional factor of authentication," the report said.


Definitely online banking is trending and would become the future way of transaction. Many researchers suggest that it would grow exponentially in future. For example, a report by Allied Market Research analyzed the online banking market and gave a fair & square idea about it. Banking is definitely on it all time high and would witness higher leaps in future.

Tuesday 20 May 2014

Mobile Banking grow two-fold, reveals BBA

British Bankers' Association stated that mobile banking is undergoing an evolutionary phase. As per the data collected by BBA, 5.7 million transactions occur every day through Smartphones.

“Local branch closures due to declining demand for day-to-day banking are the "direction of travel," the BBA said.

"There's an amazing revolution in the way people are banking," "The reason why it [mobile banking] has grown so much is just that it's a lot more flexible." "It's driven by customers - they can do it any time of day or night. You can pay a bill while at the pub - that sort of   thing." BBA chief said to BBC.

"They [branches] are an integral part of the industry," he said. "They will be more focused on the big decisions - taking out a mortgage, taking out a big business loan, where you need to have a face-to-face interaction."


This Proves that mobile banking is growing significantly and would change the way banking is performed in future. A recent report published by AMR gives in-depth information on global SOHO mobile banking market. The report gives market trends, analysis, revenue, and market share to understand the growth of market. The report states that in U.S alone, there are about 20 million SOHO firms. More information can be found in the report. Also, AMR has a report that provides you detailed information of global mobile banking.

Withdraw money from ATMs without any Card

Bank of India became the first bank in state of Maharashtra, India to allow users to withdraw money from ATM without having a bank account.

The bank launched ‘Instant Money Transfer’, a domestic remittance service that would allow any user to remove cash from its selected ATM’s without having the need of card. This facility is as per the promise of RBI governor, Raghu Ram made in the month of March.

Using the receiver's mobile number, the IMT would allow the customer to transfer money to a receiver through the bank's ATM or using retail Internet banking facility. Hence, the receiver may withdraw money from designated BoI ATMs without using a debit card.

"This service is in line with the RBI's expectation of expanding financial inclusion, wherein fund transfer can happen from account holders to those without accounts through ATMs," BoI Chairperson and Managing Director V R Iyer told reporters here.

With this facility, the user may withdraw upto Rs 10,000/transaction and upto Rs 25,000 monthly. Further, the receiver will be charged a fees of Rs 25 on every transaction.

ATM has revolutionized the money transfer process. It has definitely reduces the headache of waiting in long bank queues. The global ATM market is poised togrow steadily as per various research. One such research is conducted by Allied Market Research that provides market Size, Share, Trends and Forecast from 2012 – 2020 on the global ATM market. It would be interesting to see what next technological up gradation is waiting for ATMs

Monday 19 May 2014

New set of rules for Prepaid Credit Card Services

Ottawa has launched new set of rules for prepaid credit card services that would be beneficial for the customers. It includes abolition of high processing fees and termination of expiry dates. Every year about 8 million cards are issued under brand names such as MasterCard, American Express and Visa.

“We have heard far too much that Canadians felt like they’ve been gouged,” federal Minister of State for Finance Kevin Sorenson told a news conference in Ottawa.
The new rules that are formulated would wave off expiry dates and maintenance fees for a year after the activation of cards. Also, any other terms and condition associated with such cards should be clearly mentioned on the external packing. 

“I’m hoping that I’ll never receive another call from somebody that said, ‘We thought we had $500 on our credit card and after 10 months we have nothing left because of fees and charges,’ ” association president Bruce Cran told reporters at the Ottawa news conference.
However, consumer affairs critic Glenn Thibeault said that other types of fees might also apply. “If the Conservatives really cared about Canadian consumers, these would have come in to effect months ago, ahead of the holiday season,” he said.

“Visa believes the additional guidance issued today regarding prepaid payment products regulations will improve consumer awareness of any fees. We look forward to reviewing the full regulations,” Visa’s head of new products, Sue Whitney, said in an email.


“Consumers are best served when we can help them make informed choices about payment products they are using,” MasterCard Canada said in a statement.
Canadian Bankers’ Association supported the idea of communicating to the customers beforehand about terms and conditions.

“In fact, the banks already follow many of the measures outlined in today’s announcement, including clearly stating any applicable fees on the outside packaging and providing toll-free numbers to check card balances,” the association said in a statement.

“The regulations don’t go far enough,” said John Lawford, executive director of the Public Interest Advocacy Centre. “There should be no expiry and no fees unrelated to cost of actually providing credit.”

Thus, such improvement in prepaid credit card market only proves that it has a bright future.Recently allied market research published a report on Global Prepaid credit card Market. The report forecasts the global prepaid credit card market to reach $168 billion by 2015. This might interest lots of investors.

RDC- Future way of banking

RDC- Remote deposit capture is a technology that makes an individual to remotely scan his/her checks via internet protocol and send across the image of checks for the deposits. Definitely, it is one of the revolutionary technologies for banking sectors. However, Check 21 act passed by United States federal law made it possible for banks to clear check images rather than physically depositing to bank. 

RDC is rising significantly in banking sectors due to its convenience offered over other methods to deposit funds. 

Burroughs, Inc. leading manufacture of banking check scanners, recently added the SmartSource Micro Elite check and document scanner to its list. The company is working since 1999 to deliver over a half-million world class check scanners for banking purposes.


"We are pleased to be able to provide the remote deposit capture community with the industry-leading technology and quality for which Burroughs is so well-known." said Alan Grote, Burroughs Vice President of Worldwide Product Sales.  "Financial institutions know that Burroughs does technology better.  The Micro Elite scanner is the perfect check scanning solution for their low-volume remote deposit capture customers."

This new device by Burroughs, Inc. would be best for low volume RDC. With its Magnetic Ink Character Recognition (MICR), any fraudulent item can be identified at the earliest. Also, it has the smallest footprint that would save plethora of desktop space.

Definitely, remote deposit capture market is witnessing an upsurge. Many researchers suggest that it would be one of the attractive segments in years to come. One of such latest research report on RDC market was published by Allied Market Research that forecasts the global remote deposit capture market to grow exponentially. Further, the report states that the factors that would have a positive impact on the market growth are busy schedule, rise in online transaction trend, and time constraints. 

Monday 5 May 2014

Male infertility sidelined: Claims Dr. Barnes in her book

A Cambridge expert claimed that the medical field has failed in curing male infertility. Matters relating to female infertility are usually widely discussed; however, male infertility still finds little space. Many men often end up getting the wrong treatment. This has been published in Dr. Liberty Barnes’s book, who is a member of Cambridge sociology department.

Her claims are a result of a detailed research carried out in the United States of America by interviewing numerous couples and doctors. She further stated that even after the share of male infertility being around 50% of the overall infertility cases, larger part of the attention has been sighted toward female infertility. This has resulted in less effective treatment methods to cure male infertility.

Dr Barnes said: “This is the standard coping mechanism in men – that their ‘messed-up plumbing’ is not their fault and is in most cases repairable.

“Male infertility is as prevalent as female infertility, but it’s invisible in our society.
“While female infertility support groups, blogs, news and literature abound, male infertility is hidden from public view.”

Dr. Barnes book provides us detailed information on the issues related to male infertility. However, male infertility awareness is rising slowly and steadily and male infertility market is garnering importance worldwide. There are not many researches that would provide significant insights into the male infertility market. However, there was a recent report published by Allied Market Research, which forecasts the global male infertility market to reach an exponential figure $301.5 million by 2020. We could see an effective treatment for this issue in future.

Plastic Additives Market will Reach $57.8 Billion, Globally, by 2020 – Allied Market Research

Allied Market Research today published the most comprehensive and strategically analyzed report titled “Plastic Additives Market (Functions, Types, Applications and Geography) – Size, Share, Global Trends, Analysis, Opportunities, Growth, Intelligence and Forecast, 2012-2020”. The global plastic additives market in terms of volume was estimated at 12.6 million tons in 2013 and is expected to reach 17.1 million tons by 2020 growing at a CAGR of 4.4% during 2013-2020.
Decreasing mineral ore sources have increased the cost of metal equipment, which has triggered the application of plastics to replace the metal equipment. The low cost of plastic equipment and properties that match metal equipment is also pushing the higher adoption of plastics in a number of applications. Thus the demand for additive which enhances the properties of plastics is also on rise. The companies involved in manufacturing of additives are majorly concentrating on specialty chemicals that are used in construction and automobile equipment.
The global plastic additives market growth is dampened by strict government regulations as some plastics additives such as Chlorinated flame retardant are banned in countries, namely Canada, U.S. and the European Union. The pending legal suits are also hindering the growth of plastic additive market. Companies are facing problems with lawsuits such as patent imitation suit, commercial application of banned product etc.
The plastic additives manufactures have high focus on developing economies due to economical advantages. Asia-Pacific is the largest revenue generating region among other geographies due to the availability of low cost raw material and economical work force. However, the availability of economical work force in under developed economies such as in Africa is also attracting the global players. The Asia-Pacific and Rest of the world region shared 42.1% revenue in 2013 which is expected to soar to 60% by 2020. The increase in consumption of plastic products and raising awareness for the preservation of depleting resources is facilitating the growth of plastic additive market in these regions.
Plastic additive market by type is segmented into Plasticizers, Flame Retardants, Impact Modifiers, Antioxidants, Anti-microbial and UV Stabilizers. The plastic additive market by types is ruled by plasticizers in terms of volume as well as values. The plasticizers market was valued of $21.4 billion in 2013 and expected to lead in terms of revenue generation throughout the analysis period. The multiple applications of plasticizers in manufacturing plastic products are promoting the market as compared to others segments. The flame retardants plastic additives market has highest growth potential which is forecast to grow at a CAGR of 5.4% during 2013-2020. Furthermore, antimicrobial market which is expected to grow at a moderate growth is promoted due to increase in demand for disposable products in healthcare industry.
Plastic additives market is expected to grow in developing economies such as India, China, and Japan. The developing economies are more lucrative for the global players operating in this market due to availability of low cost labors and raw materials.
The companies involved in the manufacturing of chemicals are trying to capture the natural resources to create monopolistic environment in supply chain of plastic additive and other chemicals market. Recently, Neftegaz America Shelf (a subsidiary of Roseneft) acquired 30% shares of deepwater exploration of ExxonMobil (Gulf of Maxico). This agreement had initiated the production and refining of petroleum products in that block. Key companies included in the company profiles are BASF, Chemtura Corporation, Exxon Mobil Corporation, Bayer Ag, Clariant Ltd. and Kaneka Corporation.

Saturday 3 May 2014

Acrylic Acid Market Analysis, Trends and Forecast 2012 - 2020

Allied Market Research added a new report titled "Global Acrylic Acid Market (Derivative Types, Applications, Geography)- Size, Share, Global Trends, Company Profiles, Demand, Insights, Analysis, Research, Report, Opportunities, Segmentation and Forecast, 2012 - 2020" to its on-demand report catalogue and is now available for pre-book. 
The market research conducted by Allied Market Research is projecting the current trends in the applications of acrylic acid market. This report evaluates the acrylic acid market in terms of value ($million) and volume (tons). Acrylic acid is the essential compound used in surface coating industry that helps in manufacturing of high tensile and thermal resistance materials. 
Acrylic acid is expected to be the largest revenue generating segment in surface coating industry due to the increase in demand for absorbent polymers in manufacturing consumer products. The acrylic acid market garnered approximately half of the total market revenue of absorbent polymers market in 2012 and it is further expected to grow.
Developed economies are witnessing rapid growth in acrylic acid market as it largely used in manufacturing consumer products; therefore, there is a positive expectancy for the market to grow in future. However, In spite of the positive market expectancy in developed economics, the companies in developing economies are unable to establish manufacturing plants for acrylic acid production due to the heavy initial capital involved.
 Gaining competitive advantage in the growing economies such as ChinaIndia and Africa is the first target for companies competing in this market. However, to explore the opportunities in the market, companies competing in the global market are adopting collaboration and agreement as developmental strategies in acrylic acid market.

Cloud Computing Services Market Analysis, Forecast and Share from 2012 - 2020

The cloud computing market offers flexible and remote data storage facility to enterprises and also eliminates the need for a physical storage infrastructure. Cloud computing allows multiple end-users to store and access data through a common network space simultaneously.
 According to the opinion of more than 60% CIOs of high performing enterprises, cloud computing is expected to improve customer engagement along with improving operational efficiency. In today's business world, it is estimated that more than 2 Zetabytes of data is generated annually and cloud offers an ideal platform for storage of this magnitude of data cost-effectively. It is estimated that 35% of the data storage budget of organizations can be saved with the implementation of cloud computing.
Moreover, sectors such as BFSI and retail can give access to their online applications through cloud interface and enhance customer service. Since these sectors are customer-centric, they can simplify data reservoir management and analytical applications to get in-depth understanding of customer behavior patterns. 
Moreover, allowing customers access to online business applications on cloud system would increase scalability and prop-up efficiency. The global data storage market revenue stood at $9.2 billion in 2012. With more enterprises opting for cloud based services, the cloud computing market is expected to surpass the conventional storage infrastructure in terms of revenue over the next decade.

Global Wound Closure and Advanced Wound Care Market Analysis, Trends and Forecast from 2012 to 2020

Without instant care, a seriously injured fighter can undoubtedly drain to death while being transported to medical care station. Two conventional medications - medicated gauze pads and tourniquets - regularly can't prevent the blood loss from a serious wound at the neck, groin or shoulder.

Undergraduates from John Hopkins have invented injectable foam to curb the bleeding where head or limb is connected to the torso. It will be a crucial treatment in the first hour of the injury by applying pressure on the wound.

"The problem is that damage from bullets and bone fragments deep inside a junctional wound is not always visible from outside the body, and a regular clotting agent may not be able to reach the origin of the bleeding," said Sydney Rooney, leader of the biomedical engineering student team that sought to solve this problem. "We came up with a foam injection system that fills the wound area and blocks the blood loss."

"Our project has been dealing very literally with a life and death matter," Rooney said. "At the end of the day, that provided some extra motivation for our team."

"The foam fills up the wound opening, hardens and applies pressure to the walls of the cavity," said Allie Sanzi, who participated in the project during her freshman year. "This should lead to more effective targeting and treatment at the source of the bleeding."

The understudies' venture was proposed and regulated by two specialists at All Children's Hospital, a Johns Hopkins Medicine office in St. Petersburg, Fla. All Children's serves as a clinical preparing site for doctors in the Green Berets, Army Rangers, Navy Seals, and Marine Special Forces who require pediatric crisis reaction experience. This permitted the student innovators to meet with these groups and the specialists to examine the new venture and its models.

One of the supporting specialists, Paul D. Danielson, a military veteran who is presently therapeutic chief for pediatric surgery at All Children's, said the learners' gadget looks very guaranteeing, despite the fact that it’s still at the model stage.

"I don't think its pie in the sky at all," he said. "I think it's a very viable solution to a problem that's been plaguing us on the battlefield."

Another of the students' sponsors and advisers, All Children's pediatric surgeon Nicole Chandler, was impressed by the undergrads' solid grasp of design and clinical issues. "I think the students did a wonderful job on this project," she said. "Their understanding of some medical concepts was beyond that of many medical students. They came up with a simple, intuitive design that has the potential to save many lives."


Thus such useful innovations are pushing the growth of advanced wound care and closure market. The market has become significant in effective treatment of chronic wounds. A latest research projects the market to attain a value of 20.5 billion by 2020.

Quantum dot’s technology to change the application of Solar Cells

A recent work by the researchers of Los Alamos National Laboratory demonstrated that exceptional light emitting quality of quantum dots could be used in harvesting solar energy efficiently.

“The key accomplishment is the demonstration of large-area luminescent solar concentrators that use a new generation of specially engineered quantum dots,” said lead researcher Victor Klimov of the Center for Advanced Solar Photophysics (CASP) at Los Alamos.

With the help of colloidal chemistry, quantum dots can be synthesized with the atomic precision. By controlling dimensions, their color of emission can be tuned. Quantum dot’s highly efficient power emission with the property of color tunability is considered as the basis for quantum dotdisplay technology.

Klimov explained, “The LSC serves as a light-harvesting antenna which concentrates solar radiation collected from a large area onto a much smaller solar cell, and this increases its power output.”
“LSCs are especially attractive because in addition to gains in efficiency, they can enable new interesting concepts such as photovoltaic windows that can transform house facades into large-area energy generation units,” said Sergio Brovelli, who worked at Los Alamos until 2012 and now a faculty member at UNIMIB.

With solution processability, color tunability and high efficiency, quantum dots are best choice for luminescent solar concentrators that help to trap the sunlight. Quantum dots market has witnessed exceptional rise in few years. Although it is an emerging technology, many technological pundits coin it to be the next big thing. Many researches also suggest the same. For example, a latest report by allied market research, based in Oregon, Portland, analyzed the global quantum dots market to reach $5.04 billion by 2020.